Russia actively participates in international mega-science projects in different countries. Russian scientists and equipment can be found in many largest scientific projects in the world, such as CERN located in Switzerland or Italy’s Borexino. Today Russia is aimed to development its own top-class research facilities: 625 million rubles will be allocated on the national project „Science“. For instance the funding will be submitted to the Pacific Quantum Center, which is to be created on the basis of the Far Eastern Federal University. FEFU will receive money for the creation of a physics center as a grant, which they won in scientific activity of the Ministry of Education and Science. Funding of 36 million rubles per year is to be provided until 2023. In addition to specialists from Vladivostok, scientists from Russia, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region will be invited to cooperate. Center staff will be able to use unique equipment and for research using high-performance computing, machine learning, and digital twins. They will be able to use the FEFU supercomputer. For this, the power of its calculations – 26 teraflops (One teraflop – a trillion operations per second) – will be tripled.
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The Russian government approved the 2021-2030 strategic academic leadership program „Priority 2030“, which is aimed at supporting universities. The corresponding order is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
Russia’s first ‘Technological Valley’ will be established at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) this year, according to a recent decree signed by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Implementation of the project fulfils the announcement by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in his annual message to the Federal Assembly last year about the establishment of specialised scientific and educational valleys based around Russia’s leading universities.
Top Russian universities are accelerating their battle for the world’s best researchers, according to statements by representatives of leading universities and senior officials in the Ministry of Education and Science. This will be possible thanks to a boost in funding for the ‘5-100’ university development programme, recently approved by the government.
Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the results of the Emerging Economies University Rankings spanning 43 countries across four continents.
Russia has expanded its presence in the rankings table this year. THE notes that this country is the fourth most represented nation in the rankings, with 35 universities ranked – up from 27 previous year. Eighteen of all Russia’s universities featured in this year’s rankings are Project 5-100 participants.
German and Russian scientists will study the mechanisms of formation and evolution of organic substances in relation to the formation of stars and planetary systems. As part of Project 5-100, the Ural Federal University (UrFU) is creating the first research group in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, which is currently the first group of this kind in Russia.
Scientists of the Astrochemistry and Extraterrestrial Physics Laboratory which is being established in Ekaterinburg at UrFU and their counterparts from the Center for Astrochemical Studies of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics will study the impact of various physical processes on the organic substance evolution in space.
The institutions will cooperate in the form of a „partner research group“; its formation has been approved by the Presidium of the Max Planck Society. The German party will allocate about 1.5 million rubles per year for collaborative research in the next three years.
According to Anton Vasyunin, head of the Astrochemistry and Extraterrestrial Physics Laboratory which is being established at the Department of Astronomy, Geodesy and Environmental Monitoring of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UrFU, the group will study how organic substances form and evolve in the areas where stars and planetary systems form, i.e. in extremely low temperature and density. Expert says that the origins of life in the universe is one of the most fundamental issues for interdisciplinary studies in modern science, and astrophysical research aimed at studying molecular composition of the interstellar medium considerably contributes to tackling this issue. Russian specialists will contribute to joint work primarily by conducting theoretical, quantitative and observational research of the evolution of chemical composition of interstellar objects.
„The group will work primarily in the sphere of astrochemistry, which is a relatively new discipline integrating physics, astronomy and chemistry,“ says Mr. Vasyutin. „The group partnering the Max Planck Society will be the first one of this kind in Russia. Partnership with our German counterparts will encourage research visits and exchange of ideas between the parties. As the relationship takes hold, experts would expect that this bilateral activity will increase and strengthen international cooperation in science.
Star formation in general and, specifically, astrochemistry are studied by a small group of scientists in the world, and there are few such specialists in Russia. „We have had a unique chance of creating the „Russian astrochemistry“, as, among other things, we teach special courses at UrFU. We hope that we will achieve considerable results studying physical processes which had not been considered, such as small-scale instability in a dusty plasma and interaction of cosmic rays with cosmic dust particles, the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium and formation of organic molecules,“ said Anna Punanova who works in the laboratory.
Astrochemical studies are a step towards answering one of the fundamental questions of modern science regarding the origins of life in the universe. In Russia, research related to astrochemistry is conducted mainly at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Chemistry at MSU, the Astro Space Center, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academу of Sciences, the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) in Nizhny Novgorod, and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis.
Quelle: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
The two Co-Chairs, Cristina Russo, Director for International Cooperation of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, and Mikhail Romanovsky, Director of the State Science, Technology & Innovation Policy Department of the Ministry of Science & Higher Education of the Russian Federation, acknowledged the good level of cooperation between the European Union and Russia in the areas of research and innovation. Russia continues to be an active participant of the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation – since 2014 under the current Horizon 2020 programme Russian organisations have participated more than 100 times in 76 collaborative projects.